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leveraged C#, MVC, and IIS for user experience; WCF, OData, and BizTalk for mes‐
sage exchanges; MSSQL and Entity Framework for storage. That is a lot of acronyms
and even more complexity under the hood. Prototyping a concept usually involved all
above-mentioned technologies, while the final solution release was either expensive,
inflexible, or did not meet client expectations.
With the adoption of eXist-db our development and release workflows have become
highly agile and more competitive. Utilizing eXist-db as a dark-data solution platform
and not just another XML database allowed us to eliminate 80% of our Microsoft code
base just by taking advantage of the built-in web server, low-level data manipulation
using XQuery 3.0, restful data exchange, and native storage capabilities.
—Chris Misztur,
CTO,
Haptix Games,
Chicago, Illinois
easyDITA is an end-to-end solution for collaboratively authoring, managing, and pub‐
lishing content using the DITA XML standard. Companies utilize easyDITA to reduce
the cost and time to market to deliver content in a variety of formats and languages. By
leveraging eXist, easyDITA is able to deliver customers exceptional ability to search,
manage, localize, and publish content. eXist's schemaless design and flexible indexing
system makes it easy to support customizations like reporting, analytics, and new con‐
tent models without sacrificing performance or doing major redesigns.
—Casey Jordan,
cofounder,
easyDITA, Jorsek LLC,
Rochester, New York
We [at XML Team Solutions] help media and entertainment companies integrate
sports news and data feeds. These feeds are predominantly XML. We use eXist for two
things:
1. Regulating and preparing vendor web service XML for transmission to clients.
Scheduled jobs access remote web services, preprocess, and pass on XML via
HTTP Client to our main feed processor.
2. API to drive graphics for live television broadcast. API built from RESTXQ pro‐
vides live updates of results to broadcaster clients. Currently uses JMS to sync
from one write DB to two load-balanced readers. Also has an XForms “beat the
feed” live score updater which mimics the incoming feed in case feed vendor is
delayed.
We recently delivered a project for BBC Sports to deliver live broadcast information.
eXist met all the requirements for speed, cost, and reliability for an API to deliver up-
to-date scores and statistics to BBC television.
—Paul Kelly,
Director of Software Development,
XML Team Solutions Corp,
Canada